Microsoft: Bing is not a bottomless money pit (any more)

Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer for its Applications and Services group tells investors now is the time for Microsoft to put its foot on the gas with Bing, not sell it off.

From All About Microsoft:

Like clockwork, every time Microsoft has released its quarterly earnings for the past few years, the stories about Bing being an endless money pit have appeared. (We've written more than a few of these on ZDNet ourselves.)bingbreakeven

But Microsoft's massive investments in building Bing's datacenter infrastructure are now behind the company, said Dave O'Hara, the Chief Financial Officer for Microsoft's Applications and Services Group. O'Hara answered questions about Microsoft's online services strategy on a December 19 an investor call organized by UBS analyst Brent Thill.